Global Extended Family

Angela will be serving in the Women’s Social Work ministry in Nicaragua with Students International. It is a ministry that desires to meet the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs in the poorest country in Latin America. The ministry site she will be a part of focuses on strengthening the relationships between the women of Nicaragua while continuously pointing to God in the process. Specifically, this ministry introduces skills to women in order for them to bring income into their homes to help support their families. She is excited to share the gospel in a way that allows her to live out what she preaches.

Brenna McBrien is serving as a secondary mathematics teacher and missionary at the International Christian School of Lima in Lima, Peru, with the Network of International Christian Schools (NICS). It is a Pre-K through grade 12 school that serves the international business and expat community of Lima by providing top quality American education while integrating the gospel into the classroom. Brenna is excited that she gets to pair her passion of teaching mathematics with her heart of spreading the gospel to the nations.

The Griffiths are serving with New Tribes Mission to help people connect to God and to each other in their neighborhood in West Africa.

They began learning the trade language, and after attaining proficiency, moved on to learn the most widely used local language. This seemed to break down the wall of noise that had been separating them from diving in deeper with the people around them—suddenly they understood people walking by on the street and neighbors yelling out their windows.

Their next step is to move out to a remote village and start learning a third ethnic group language, which will bring them into the next layer of culture and closer to the heart of the people with the purpose to translate and teach the Word of God.

The Jeffcoach's are serving with Global Outreach in Ethiopia. David and Krishel are using their medical skills to help train Ethiopians as surgeons. They are also discipling and training their medical students in biblical training so that they can share the Good News to the communities they go to after completing the 5 year program.

The Jeffcoach's are partnering with PAACS and Soddo Hospital in Soddo. The hospital plays a huge role in the community and country of 10 million. It's international staff of doctors, like the Jeffcoaches, are caring for people's physical and spiritual health. Soddo Christian Hospital's vision is to demonstrate the Gospel with compassionate and loving care and to share with our patients the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Jessie will be serving as a long-term missionary with Students International (SI) in Desamparados, Costa Rica. She will join the Sports and Recreation Ministry Site to provide more fitness programs, team sports outlets and mentorship for students of all ages within the smaller communities of Desamparados. The main objective of the program is to show Christ’s love through various avenues, to disciple and to empower children to reach their God-given potentials.

The Sports and Recreation Ministry Site travels to various schools, community centers or neighborhoods to serve the people of Desamparados and share Jesus’ love with them. Ultimately, the hope is that Jessie will run a sports ministry specifically for teen girls, as there currently is not an outlet for these young women.

Students International is an organization that strives to bring students and the poor together cross-culturally to encounter God, share the good news, disciple and serve others in occupational ministries.

Jessie would love for you to be a part of her journey by following posts, photos and prayer requests on her Facebook page.

Larry brings 40+ years of cross-cultural Kingdom ministry with a global organization on three continents to the Extended Family partnership. After several years of fellowshipping with our La Fuente Spanish gathering, including an active role on the worship team, Larry is now in a West African context. He is learning the trade language before progressing on to the heart language of a highly unreached people group. 

Building upon a lifetime of worship participation, Larry seeks to use his music and cross-cultural background to come alongside a largely illiterate people group in his West African setting. As he gains fluency, he also desires to accept a West African pastor’s invitation to help prepare West Africans for their cross-cultural ministry to this and other people groups.

W Family working in Northern Africa. Because of the restrictions placed on full time Christian workers, we do not name or publish information about these workers on the internet. If you have an interest in learning more about the W family, please reach out to our Missions Department.